Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
by siavosh on Thursday March 08, 2012 @01:13PM
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Good point. When I saw his email volume, I wondered how I would feel looking about at an entire decade and seeing how much time I spent on emails. I'd probably feel a lot of regret. But like you're saying the point of QS shouldn't be regret (or novelty), but identifying a 'problem' and fixing it asap.
Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
by nl on Thursday March 08, 2012 @11:01PM
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I wondered how I would feel looking about at an entire decade and seeing how much time I spent on emails. I'd probably feel a lot of regret.
Why should you feel regret? There is nothing more human than communicating with other people!
Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
by Drbble on Friday March 09, 2012 @07:16AM
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A prediction engine (aka adaptive shorthand, or similar) would give even better ROI than manual practice in standard typing.
Why are predictive keyboards so popular on phones but not desktops and laptops?
Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
by gwern on Friday March 09, 2012 @04:24PM
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Do they actually work for coder-style usage? Would I actually be faster in Emacs if I was constantly looking to see what my keyboard had been redefined to this time?
Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
by Drbble on Friday March 16, 2012 @03:11AM
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Intellisense/autocomplete in Eclipse and Vim is the one are of desktop computing where I do get assistance, and it works great. It's not autocorrect, but it's two characters and then tab of crtl-space or whatever and tab or arrow key to the word of my choice.
> And as I think about it all, I suppose my greatest regret is that I did not start collecting more data earlier.
Hopefully he can change that. For example, his observation about the 7% use of the backspace key is an obvious one. If he eliminated backspace entirely, he could speed up typing by as much as that much - nontrivial given how much time he apparently spends on email! An experiment would be using some typing tutor program for a few months and seeing whether the keylogging notes a decrease in backspace.